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Study mode

Part time

Duration

3 years

Start date

APR-24

Key information
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Qualification type

MSc - Master of Science

Subject areas

General Medical Practice

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Course overview

Advanced clinical practice is a rapidly expanding role across all areas in healthcare. This multi-professional course is developed around a national framework and the four capabilities of advanced clinical practice – clinical, research, education and leadership.

This course is also available as a degree apprenticeship. This course enables you to develop your personal and professional autonomy, providing you with a comprehensive and critical understanding of professional practice, ensuring that you are fit for future challenges within health and social care.

The course is flexible for multi-professional individuals from all areas of advanced practice within acute and primary care sectors – you access the same core modules. The negotiated competencies within the first-year portfolio module allow you the flexibility to ensure maximum relevance and application to your clinical area. You have the opportunity to develop advanced and core transferable skills relevant to your area of practice – you develop your advanced clinical decision-making skills, using evidence-based approaches to care, lead innovation and practice, and develop high levels of autonomy. The course is developed in partnership with key stakeholders from practice and delivered by an experienced team with knowledge and academic credibility both within and outside of the University. This multi-professional team has a wealth of experience in developing and delivering modules of this nature for healthcare professions at all academic levels. You study this course on a part-time basis over three years. You are supported through your studies by an academic supervisor and you also need to identify a practice supervisor. To access the apprenticeship route you must be working in a healthcare setting with relevant registration and be sponsored by your organisation.

How you are assessed

Modules within this course have summative assessments to assess the module learning outcomes. The modules use a variety of assessment methods to help develop advanced knowledge and skills for clinical practice. You are assessed on the four pillars of advanced practice throughout the course. Assessment methods include a written assignment, work-based learning through advanced clinical practitioner competencies, consultation clinics, reflective accounts, portfolio development, critical appraisal and evaluation of the evidence base, modified objective structured clinical examination record, viva (oral exam), patient case studies to develop and exhibit high levels of clinical reasoning and practical exams to demonstrate advanced decision-making skills.

Summative assessment within the core modules require you to critically evaluate key areas in relation to your area of work. Group discussions and student-led seminars enable both peer and tutor feedback in relation to learning.

Modules

You develop your knowledge and skills within the four pillars of advanced clinical practice ? research, education, leadership and clinical. You are supported to develop and apply advanced knowledge and skills to your practice through work-based learning.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£2,250

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

To be confirmed

Entry requirements

You must: have current registration with relevant professional healthcare body such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council or Health and Care Professions Council; have an honour’s degree in a health-related subject (previous experience and evidence of study at Level 6 may be considered); work in a healthcare organisation, normally at equivalent of band 6 (or above) within an area of advanced practice; work in a role which requires diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility for a patient caseload for a minimum of 20 hours a week; have a minimum of three years’, full-time or equivalent in part-time hours, post-registration clinical experience; be able to organise for a suitable practitioner (for example, a medical doctor or an active advanced practitioner) to act as a practice supervisor.

University information

Teesside University Middlesbrough is a friendly, modern university located in the heart of North East England. It has a large and vibrant campus, home to more than 22,000 students and includes a community of over 8,000 postgraduates. The university offers a broad portfolio of postgraduate programmes including taught and research degree, as well as continued professional development courses and short courses in a variety of subject areas. It...more

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